Google Fonts and Dynamic CSS Files
We recently had to figure out how to use google fonts for a specific page on one of our sites. We did not want to load in a CSS file that would only be needed on one page, so we had to find a way to dynamically load the CSS and thought we’d share the [...]
Continue reading...WordPress and Version Control
Monday, January 10, 2011
One of the things we’ve been trying to figure out is how to use version control with CMS platforms like WordPress. We had several discussions on whether or not we should place the entire installation under version control, but ultimately decided that would be wasteful and unnecessary. We really only need to consider the themes [...]
Continue reading...No Is The New Yes
Saturday, October 23, 2010
This simple statement was just a small part of one of the talks during last week’s (refresh)cache conference, an unofficial conference for the Arena developer community. Jon Edmiston, one of the original Arena developers from CCV, gave a talk on strategy, and this short phrase has stuck with me so I thought I’d share it. “No” [...]
Continue reading...One Crazy Summer
Monday, October 11, 2010
Now that summer is over and Fall has arrived, we wanted to share a little bit about what we’ve been up to. One of the things we talk about at North Point is determining our strengths and trying to maximize those strengths, both individually and in our teams; well, clearly blogging isn’t one of our [...]
Continue reading...Triage
Friday, June 25, 2010
We are now live on our new Arena Church Management System! As we prepared for our rollout, we knew we needed to find a way to make certain that the ministry teams at all our campuses had the support they needed to hit the ground running on our new system. Yes, we did spend time training [...]
Continue reading...Training
Friday, May 14, 2010
We recently finished a series of training days for our staff where we did preliminary training on our new Arena Church Management System. Everything we do seems to bring its own set of lessons to learn from, and this was no different. Here are some things that we discovered (or re-discovered) about training: As much as [...]
Continue reading...Moving 0s and 1s
Friday, March 26, 2010
We have several big projects currently underway that have underscored the importance of accurate and complete data. For the past several months we have spent a lot of effort ensuring that our member and group data will be migrated correctly into our new Arena Church Management System. We’re also migrating to a new e-Commerce site [...]
Continue reading...To Upgrade or Not To Upgrade…
Friday, February 5, 2010
If you’re anything like us, you’ve got more than enough work to keep your team busy. The appetite for web sites and applications continues to grow at a frenetic pace, and the ministry teams we support have no shortage of great ideas. And, of course, we all love to work on projects that come with [...]
Continue reading...jQuery Roundup
Friday, November 20, 2009
One of the biggest tools in our toolbox lately is jQuery. Just about every site we create these days has at least one jQuery feature or plugin that we’re using. If you’ve read this far and your eyes haven’t rolled back in your head, then you most likely know what jQuery is and probably also [...]
Continue reading...Sidebar Feeds and Ajax
Sunday, October 4, 2009
We seem to be getting more and more requests to include RSS feeds from various blogs or social networking sites (mostly Twitter) on our various sites, so we have spent a little time checking out many of the plugins and source code that’s available all over the web. For the most part these plugins work [...]
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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